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OUR TABLE AND JOHN 17
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Come on in, every-body!  You brought a friend today!  Good to meet you!

So good to have you come to our table!  And you brought your Bible with you!  Reading aloud together is important.  [Debbie Stuart Praise the Lord!]

Come on over here,  sit down next to the Head of our table for  Ethos: also known as:
Enthused Talks Help Our Soul

Through Read ALOUD Podcasts, discerning our past, present and future life,

Today, resurrection Sunday, our meal will be the prayer Jesus prayed in John 17:1-26. 
I will be reading ALOUD from the Amplified Translation, which is a Literal Equivalent
translation that, by using synonyms and definitions, both explains and expands the
meaning of words in the text by placing amplification in parentheses, brackets, and
after key words.  Pastor Curtis Ganey told me he used the Amplified Bible when he
was reading for pleasure, because it more clearly grasp the meaning as it was
understood in the original languages.  Let us pray it back to Jesus (who is the Head
of our body, the Church):

"When Jesus had spoken these things, He raised His eyes to heaven [in prayer]
and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, so that Your Son may
glorify You. [2] Just as You have given Him power and authority over all
mankind, [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You
have given Him [to be His-permanently and forever]. [3] Now this is eternal
life: that they may know You, the only true [supreme and sovereign] God,
and [in the same manner know] Jesus [as the] Christ whom You have sent.
[4] I have glorified You [down here] on the earth by completing the work
that You gave Me to do. [5] Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself,
with the glory and majesty that I had with You before the world existed.
[6] "I have manifested Your name [and revealed Your very self, Your real
self] to the people whom You have given Me out of the world; they were
Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept and obeyed Your word. [7] Now [at last] they know [with confident assurance] that all You have given Me is from You [it is really and truly Yours]. [8] For the words which You gave Me I have given them; and they received and accepted them and truly understood [with confident assurance] that I came from You [from Your presence], and they believed [without any doubt] that You sent Me. [9] I pray for them; I do not pray for the world, but for those You have given Me, because they belong to You; [10] and all things that are Mine are Yours, and [all things that are] Yours are Mine; and I am glorified in them. [11] I am no longer in the world; yet they are still in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, so that they may be one just as We are. [12] While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and protected them, and not one of them was lost except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled. [13] But now I am coming to You; and I say these things [while I am still] in the world so that they may experience My joy made full and complete and perfect within them [filling their hearts with My delight]. [14] I have given to them Your word [the message You gave Me]; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world and do not belong to the world, just as I am not of the world and do not belong to it. [15] I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but that You keep them and protect them from the evil one. [16] They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. [17] Sanctify them in the truth [set them apart for Your purposes, make them holy]; Your word is truth. [18] Just as You commissioned and sent Me into the world, I also have commissioned and sent them (believers) into the world. [19] For their sake I sanctify Myself [to do Your will], so that they also may be sanctified [set apart, dedicated, made holy] in [Your] truth. [20] "I do not pray for these alone [it is not for their sake only that I make this request], but also for [all] those who [will ever] believe and trust in Me through their message, [21] that they all may be one; just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe [without any doubt] that You sent Me. [22] I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one, just as We are one; [23] I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected and completed into one, so that the world may know [without any doubt] that You sent Me, and [that You] have loved them, just as You have loved Me. [24] Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given to Me [as Your gift to Me], may be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, because You loved Me before the foundation of the world. [25] "O just and righteous Father, although the world has not known You and has never acknowledged You [and the revelation of Your mercy], yet I have always known You; and these [believers] know [without any doubt] that You sent Me; [26] 26 and I have made Your name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them [overwhelming their heart], and I [may be] in them.”"

My prayer:  Our Father, today we, as your body, mourn for our sweet Sisters, Carol Sue and Helen that you have called home to be with you.  In our grief today, we remember your promises:

You are our refuge our strength,  our stronghold, our comforter.
You are our helper, our healer, our Friend.  You are forever and evermore.
You are our Hope, our Faith, our hesed.

And we know as Paul said in Galatians 2:20-21  I have been crucified with
Christ [that is, in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live,
but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body I live by
faith [by adhering to, relying on, and completely trusting] in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave Himself up for me. [21] I do not ignore or nullify
the [gracious gift of the] grace of God [His amazing, unmerited favor],
for if righteousness comes through [observing] the Law, then Christ died
needlessly. [His suffering and death would have had no purpose whatsoever.]”

Thank you for your grace and mercy.  Thank you for helping me create this podcast.
I pray that all who sit at this table will Through Read ALOUD Podcasts discern our
past, present and future, and our searching to be complete.  May we always
remember: Job 28:23-28  “God understands the way [to wisdom] And He knows
its place [for wisdom is with God alone]. [24] "For He looks to the ends of the
earth And sees everything under the heavens. [25] "When He gave weight and
pressure to the wind And allotted the waters by measure, [26] When He made
a limit for the rain And a way for the thunderbolt, [27] Then He saw wisdom
and declared it; He established it and searched it out. [28] “But to man He said,
‘Behold, the reverential and worshipful fear of the Lord — that is wisdom; And
to depart from evil is understanding.’”  And in 1 Peter 1:3, Peter said

Blessed [gratefully praised and adored] be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant and boundless mercy
has caused us to be born again [that is, to be reborn from above-spiritually
transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose] to an ever-living hope
and confident assurance through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Thank you Jesus!  Your mercies are great!  AMEN!!

It was so good to have you come to our table this morning.  I am blessed.  Thank you,
Love, your sister,  (aka Hephzibah by her Christ)
PS:
Colossians 3:1-4 Therefore if you have been raised with
Christ [to a new life, sharing in His resurrection from the dead],
keep seeking the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at
the right hand of God. [2] Set your mind and keep focused habitually
on the things above [the heavenly things], not on things that are on
the earth [which have only temporal value]. [3] For you died [to this
world], and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.
[4] When Christ, who is our life, appears,
then you also will appear with Him in glory.

2 Thessalonians 1:9-10 AMP These people will pay the penalty and
endure the punishment of everlasting  destruction, banished from
the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, [10] when
He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day [that is, glorified
through the changed lives of those who have accepted Him as Savior
and have been set apart for His purpose], and to be marveled at among
all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed and
trusted [and confirmed in your lives].

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Scripture quotations taken from the Amplified® Bible (AMP),
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